Green Car News

The REVA Electric Car Company of  Bangalore (India)  announced Friday that in partnership with Newly formed U.S. EV company Bannon automotive, it/they will be investing 26.5 million dollars to rehabilitate and outfit an EV factory in Syracuse, N.Y.. The facility will be an assembly plant for...

A Collision That Either Raises Roadster Safety Questions Or Dismisses Them

With the leading vehicles just passing the halfway point in the 3000 km World Solar Challenge, the Tokai University(Japan) Challenger leads the pack followed closely by the University of Michigan(U.S.) Infinium  and former world champion, the Delft Technical University(Netherlands) Nuna V. See the...

Sometime Subtlety is Underrated

Honda has the highest average fleet mileage of any volume carmaker selling in the U.S. market today. And it's had that distinction for many years. But in the face of the car-market meltdown, oil prices that have risen from $30 to $80 a barrel within months, and growing global environmental...

Reduces development time by 2 years with math and simulation-based tools from Mathworks.

At 10 am tomorrow morning, Vice President Joe Biden is expected to announce that Fisker Automotive will buy the closed General Motors factory in Wilmington, Delaware, his home state. According to reports, company founder Henrik Fisker will join Delaware Governor Jack Markell and other dignitaries...

Daimler recently made the commitment to update and expand its Rastatt factory by 2011.  The company will invest over 600 million euros to retool the facility in time for the release of its next generation, sub-compact and compact A and B Class vehicles.  This decision has been in the works for...

Toyota announced that it will put 10 Prius plug-ins into use in Boulder, Colorado.  The vehicles will be part of a research project and will utilize Xcel's SmartGridCity technology.  The research will be coordinated by the University of Colorado at Boulder Renewable and Sustainable Energy...

According to Advanced Power and Energy Sources Transportation (APET) in Hong Kong,  the cordless, no-solar-panel  EV is about to become a reality.   Developments in Zinc-air battery technology have been made which promise to make the technology a serious contender in the EV world. Zinc-air...

Every so often, we like to take a look at what other reviewers have said about the 2010 Toyota Prius hybrid. So we were excited to hear that the Detroit News, from the bowels of Big Three territory, was doing a hybrid showdown comparison test. The paper rated eight mass-priced hybrids, leaving out...

Word has come out that the Aston Cygnet, essentially a re-badged Toyota iQ city car, is expected to be available as early as next year.  Aston selling a re-badged Toyota product is interesting enough, but there's more to the story. Aston Martin believes that many of its current drivers have a need...

Better Place Israel signed an agreement with Israel's capital city of Jerusalem on Thursday, to install electric vehicle charging infrastructure throughout the municipality. The initiative will test charging stations and battery swapping facilities over the next 18 months. Charging stations will be...

  Here's a frightening scene from the streets of Denmark submitted to Autopia by reader, Lars H. A Tesla Roadster was involved in a three-way crash with a Volkswagen Touareg and a Toyota Prius earlier this week. Apparently the Roadster was stopped behind the Touareg when the Prius rear-ended the...

Zero Motorcycles is now entering the enormous Asian electric scooter / motorcycle market through AMPLE, a worldwide distributor of electric vehicle products founded on Earth Day 2008.  AMPLE's brief history can be viewed here.  I wonder if Zero tried to market through more established...

Now reported widely around the web, Fisker Automotive seems to be near a deal to acquire General Motor's Boxwood Road assembly plant in Wilmington, DE, where GM produced the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice.  GM is discontinuing both the Saturn and Pontiac brands. Fisker Automotive intends to...

The U.S. government recently purchased numerous "green" vehicles to do their part to clean up the environment.  The most recent purchase includes a slew of hybrid buses, some CNG buses and a sole electric car. This time around the General Service Administration of the U.S. government purchased 35...

Micra Replacement May Also Replace Cheapest Car in America

We can't help it. Once in a while, we like to toss in big honkin' performance cars, like the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. And even screaming smaller tuner sedans, like the 2010 Subaru STi WRC and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo. But now comes news to rock the world: The next generation of the Mitsubishi...

As regular readers no doubt recall, we [heart] the 2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI. We think it'll be the big diesel winner in the U.S. market, and that's before we've even driven one. But Bengt Halvorson loved his drive in a European version of the 2010 Golf TDI. Now, our colleague Marty Padgett has...